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CRUISE SHIPS

Guntu, a self-styled "floating 'ryokan'" (traditional Japanese inn) represents the smaller scale domestic cruises operate on compared to international vessels.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 7, 2026
As Japan gets a Disney cruise, smaller vessels chart their own course
Amid a boom in massive, international cruise ships, domestically operated voyages tend toward more intimate journeys.
People walk at Fiumicino Airport, after a Finnair plane from Helsinki was safely escorted to its scheduled landing in Rome by Italian Air Force jets following bomb threats, in Fiumicino, near Rome, on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
New wave of bomb hoaxes hits dozens of flights across Europe
The highly unusual spate of bomb threats affected nearly 30 flights by the end of Thursday.
The Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship docked at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia, where permanent residents living aboard the vessel have been forced to disembark, on Wednesday
WORLD / Society
Oct 29, 2026
A cruise ship was their home. Now residents of Villa Vie Odyssey must leave.
The ship’s hundreds of residents have been ordered to disembark in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, where it has been stranded because it can’t afford fuel.
Children play with Halloween decorations at a park in the Koh Norea satellite city in Phnom Penh on Oct. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 28, 2026
Cruise strands passengers in Cambodia after fuel surge
The luxury cruise company suspended operations, citing “extraordinary” fuel costs.
Oriental Land Chairperson and CEO Yumiko Takano speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2026
今日吃瓜 first Disney cruise ship to be called Disney Imagination
The ship is scheduled to begin service in the spring of 2029 and reservations will be accepted about six months before its launch.
The Mitsui Ocean Sakura cruise ship in Yokohama on Wednesday. The cruise ship is set to go into service Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2026
Tokyo-based MOL Cruises set to debut new all-suite ship
The Mitsui Ocean Sakura, the successor to the company’s Nippon Maru cruise ship, has a total of 229 guest rooms and five restaurants.
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, on May 11.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 18, 2026
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship set to end its voyage in Rotterdam
Late on Sunday, the World Health Organization said it was maintaining its assessment of the hantavirus outbreak as “low risk.”
Passengers on a third evacuation flight from Tenerife arrive at Eindhoven Air Base in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
May 13, 2026
Uncertainty over hantavirus spread complicates global response to cruise ship outbreak
While some repatriated passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, such as in France, passengers in the Netherlands are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks.
A person boards a plane flying to the Netherlands, which is transporting passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, at Tenerife Sur airport, Canary Islands, Spain, on Monday.
WORLD
May 12, 2026
Hantavirus-hit ship sets sail for Netherlands as final passengers evacuated in Tenerife
Three people — a Dutch couple and a German national — have died since the start of the outbreak on the ship of the virus.
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, arrives at the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, on Sunday.
JAPAN
May 11, 2026
Japanese national from hantavirus-hit ship arrives in Britain
Based on recommendations from the World Health Organization, the person will undergo health monitoring by British health authorities for up to 45 days.
A British citizen boards a plane bound for the U.K. carrying passengers evacuated from the Dutch-flagged hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofia airport in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 11, 2026
Evacuation of passengers from virus-hit cruise ship to be completed on Monday
Eight people no longer on the ship have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization ?tally from Friday, of whom six are confirmed to have contracted the virus.
A deadly suspected hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius en route from Argentina to the African island of Cape Verde is under investigation, though experts say wider spread is unlikely.
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2026
The hantavirus outbreak is cause for caution, not panic
Hantaviruses are spread by mice, rats and other rodents. Human infections, which occur when people come in contact with droppings or urine, are relatively uncommon.
Hantavirus is a rare infection typically spread through contact with infected rodent droppings or inhaling contaminated dust. Symptoms can take weeks to appear, and severe cases can progress rapidly to respiratory failure.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 8, 2026
Health officials downplay pandemic risk from cruise hantavirus outbreak
Hantavirus is less transmissible than the coronavirus and doctors say it’s also less adept at mutating.
A scientist from the Malbran Institute handles containers used to diagnose the Andes hantavirus, which contain RNA from the Andes virus as part of the detection process, in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
Risk of hantavirus transmitting between humans is low, health ministry says
The virus has infected several passengers, killing three, who were aboard a Dutch cruise ship.
Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands, speaks to the media about the deadly hantavirus outbreak on board luxury cruise ship MV Hondius, which is set to dock at the Canary Island of Tenerife, outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
In Canary Islands, nearing hantavirus cruise ship rekindles pandemic concerns
The MV Hondius, carrying 150 people, is expected to reach Tenerife on Saturday, where it will dock despite protests from the local government.
A convoy of ambulances believed to be carrying at least one of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with hantavirus is escorted by Dutch police on motorcycles as it arrives near Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, Netherlands, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
Hantavirus ship passenger: ‘They didn’t take it seriously enough’
The Turkish travel vlogger, who has since disembarked, said life on board the vessel carried on as usual even after the first death was announced.
A person in a hazmat suit is escorted to an ambulance from a medical aircraft allegedly carrying some of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with the hantavirus, at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on Wednesday.
WORLD
May 7, 2026
Countries scramble to track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship
Three people have died in the outbreak on the luxury cruise ship, and a total of eight people are suspected to have contracted the virus.
An ambulance boat approaches the cruise ship Hondius off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Tuesday.
WORLD
May 6, 2026
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to sail to Spain after rare Andes strain confirmed
South Africa confirmed that it identified among the victims a strain of the virus that can — in rare cases — spread among humans.
Cruise ship MV Hondius is seen docked off the port of Cape Verde on Monday. Passengers have not been allowed off the ship as health authorities investigate suspected cases of hantavirus aboard the vessel following the deaths of three people.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 5, 2026
How an ocean cruise turned into a hantavirus nightmare
About 150 people remain stuck ?on the ship marooned off the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean after the deaths of three passengers.
The cruise ship MV Hondius anchored off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Monday
JAPAN
May 5, 2026
One Japanese aboard cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak
Three people have died amid the outbreak of the virus onboard the ship, which was transporting 150 passengers and crew.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
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A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
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Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
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Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
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